The army is responsible for attacking the east gate is Li Zicheng's brother-in-law Gao Yigong, as Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, he will naturally not be too bad in the army, after entering Henan, the men and horses under his command have also rapidly developed to more than 20,000 people, although there are not many elite and armored soldiers in it, most of them are hungry people with rudimentary weapons such as hoes and wooden sticks, but for the rogues who believe in the strength of the number of people, the number of people represents your strength, and the number of people represents the size of your voice. Therefore, in the first round of attacks today, Gao Yigong sent 10,000 hungry soldiers to try to open the gap in one fell swoop.

"All the artillery battalions are there, reload the flower shells!"

A loud voice suddenly came from the city wall, shouting loudly to order all the gunners to prepare for firing, which was the voice of the 2nd Artillery Battalion guerrilla Lu Kuanliang.

Lu Kuanliang has the general characteristics of Qingzhou Army officers, that is, he is young, he is only twenty-five or sixteen years old this year, he is also a homeless person, as early as the end of the eighth year of Chongzhen, he went to Lingshanwei with his father, and later joined the military household of Lingshanwei, which can be regarded as the first group of people to follow Pang Gang.

This Lu Kuanliang was not as talented as Dong Guo of the 1st Artillery Battalion, and his use and command of artillery were only average, but due to the rapid expansion of the artillery battalion, Pang Gang, who was suffering from the lack of artillery command talents, could only choose a taller one among the guns and promote him to the guerrilla of the 2nd Artillery Battalion. Of course, there are some other factors in this, such as this Lu Kuanliang's loyalty to Pang Gang is one of the very important reasons.

"Bang dang!"

A five-pound and six-tael flowering shell and the medicine bag were pushed into the barrel from the muzzle by the loader, making a crisp sound, as soon as the shell entered the barrel, the gunner behind quickly inserted the fuse, and finally checked whether the shell was compact, and then raised his right hand to the gunner next to him to signal that the preparation was complete.

The artillery commander set his eyes on Lu Kuanliang who was standing not far away, and saw that the twenty-six cannons could be prepared in just one cup of tea, Lu Kuanliang nodded with satisfaction, it seems that these training sessions were not in vain, the corners of his mouth squirmed, and the small red pennant in his right hand finally waved down.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

With the fall of the small red flag, the fuses of each cannon were also ignited, and the short lead quickly burned to the medicine bag in the gun chamber, and with a loud bang, the medicine bag was ignited, and it emitted strong kinetic energy to push the projectile out of the gun chamber and fly forward.

At this time, the artillery was still a low-pressure smoothbore gun, the firing range could not be compared with the artillery of later generations, the muzzle velocity was naturally not very high, and its trajectory could also be observed with the naked eye after the gun was discharged, but if anyone underestimated it because of this, it would be a big mistake.

I saw a black flowering bullet over the city wall, flying forward, when he flew for about a mile and finally fell down, smashed on the head of a rogue, then fell to the ground and bounced a few times before it suddenly exploded, more than three catties of black gunpowder in the shell exploded instantly, and the iron ball wrapped around it instantly divided into dozens of pieces of shrapnel and flew around.

The powerful shock wave wrapped in shrapnel everywhere blew up a group of rogues around them into a blur of flesh and blood, the rogues were arranged too densely, they who had always believed in the strength of many people finally tasted the bitterness, just at this moment the shells took the lives of more than 20 rogues, the explosions in the crowd of rogues one after another, one by one the exploding shells could not help but seize the names of many rogues, and at the same time frightened the pace of these rogues to slow down.

Seeing this situation, Gao Yigong couldn't sit still, he ran to the front with hundreds of personal soldiers, and the horsewhip in his hand slashed at some cowing people and scolded loudly: "You damn fools, staying here can only be a dead end, only by rushing to the city can there be a way to live, go quickly, do you still want to taste the taste of artillery!" ”

"Smack!"

As he spoke, Gao Yigong's horse whip was whipped on the face of a hungry soldier who had stopped moving, and a bright red mark suddenly appeared, and the pain of the leather whip wrapped in copper wire on the person was indescribable, and the hungry soldier who had been whipped suddenly had a terrifying red mark on his face, and the whole person suddenly fell to the ground in pain and rolled loudly and howled.

Gao Yigong, who had a blue face, shouted and scolded the hungry soldier: "You should feel glad that I didn't correct you on the spot, but if there are still people who cower and are afraid of battle, next time it will not be a whip!" ”

After speaking, Gao Yigong waved his hand, and hundreds of personal soldiers behind him rode their horses to brush thousands of steps, pulled out a longbow from the quiver behind him, and mounted the arrowhead, and the arrowhead shining with cold light pointed at everyone in unison.

The starving people knew very well that if they did not rush forward, the arrows in their hands would be fired at them mercilessly.

At first there was a deathly silence, and then these hungry people suddenly woke up from a dream and ran forward, they all knew that if they continued to cower, then they would die, if they rushed forward, they might survive, anyway, if the thousands of people here could still be hit by the artillery or arrows of the officers and soldiers, it would only prove that they were fated.

Looking at the hungry people running forward in a honeycomb, Gao Yigong sneered and said to a partial general beside him: "These mud legs are just underbeaten, if you don't give them a little power, they will never be obedient." ”

The general nodded in agreement: "What Master Gao said is that these mud legs are all broken goods that have not been opened for three days, and only leather whips can make them obedient." ”

The two of them seemed to have forgotten that the yellow mud on their feet had not been washed, but they began to laugh at others.

Pang Gang, who was standing on the city wall, looked down, and at this moment he seemed to have an illusion, tens of thousands of hungry people were pouring in, almost covering the ground, and there were constantly cannonballs exploding in the crowd, and after the explosion, there would be an open space centered on the explosion point, but it would soon be filled by the crowd coming from behind.

"Damn it, these rogues are crazy!"

Pang Gang's face was ugly, he was not afraid that these rogues would capture Luoyang City, but he was a little puzzled, these rogue leaders knew that in the siege war, such a crazy crowd tactic could not only increase the pressure on the defenders, but it could play a limited role, why did these bandit leaders drive hungry people to death? Is he going to exhaust the forces in Luoyang City?

Although big questions sprung up in his heart, Pang Gang still calmly gave one order after another.

"Third team, quickly put down the wolf tooth slap and shoot those thieves to death!"

"Lu Kuanliang, what the hell are you still grinding, hurry up and fire!"

"Cheng Kai, what are you doing, hurry up and fire!"

As the rogue approached, the first guns of Luoyang City rang out for a while......

(To be continued)